Former UN expert on free expression explains why USC was wrong to cancel its valedictorian’s speech: slate.com/human-interest…

Former UN Special Rapporteur on Free Expression David Kaye UCILaw

My uciforum colleague David Kaye draws on his experience as a UN special rapporteur to make a strong case for USC taking the wrong approach re a graduation speaker slate.com/human-interest… cc Columbia Global Reports Lea Ypi

Important perspective from @DavidAKaye on USC's decision to cancel the speech by Asna Tabassum, the school's chosen valedictorian. The decision was a travesty, chilling to academic free speech and toadying to narrow-minded interest groups. slate.com/human-interest… via @slate

Asserting that she had no “entitlement” to speak is beside the point. slate.trib.al/eGLCity

Very excited to drop our long awaited report on #China 's Digital Silk Road! We show how Beijing is seeking to create a China-centric global authoritarian alternative to digital governance norms, through examples in the Indo-Pacific article19.org/resources/chin…

Without sufficient constraints, online speech regulation will put key individual rights at risk, including the rights to freedom of expression and privacy, warns David Kaye. How can policymakers make the Internet safer without eroding democratic norms?
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'...in the midst of a sustained assault on Gaza and the killing of Palestinian civilians at a previously unimaginable scale, Israel is playing with fire.' My latest in Foreign Affairs foreignaffairs.com/israel/israel-…

.David Kaye explains how policymakers in the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom are working to combat online harms—and warns that expanding government control over Internet speech could lead democracies on a path toward censorship.
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Excellent by David Kaye, soberly assessing the risks to speech and privacy of internet regulation -- and its politicization -- in the EU, UK, and US:

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A clear and persuasive comparative analysis of thorny issues of digital regulation and how to stay true to human rights principles. Thank you to ⁦David Kaye⁩ reader.foreignaffairs.com/2024/03/21/the…

democracies have ramped up internet content regulation, with an overwhelming focus on safety over all other values. i address the trade-offs, often ignored, in the EU, UK, US. it's even worse in authoritarian environments, of course, but imagine the lessons they learn.

“In response to public pressure to clean up the Internet, policymakers in Brussels, London, Washington, and beyond are following a path that, in the wrong hands, could lead to censorship and abuse,” warns David Kaye.
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This piece by David Kaye is excellent. We can mitigate the biggest problems with the digital public sphere without investing officials with the power to suppress speech. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Cannot lose sight of this while seeking to regulate harms. David Kaye writes on the risks of internet regulation, the possible Tik Tok ban and how even well-intentioned efforts can restrict free speech
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“Although a focus on safety and trust is legitimate, it alone cannot succeed if it puts at risk individual rights'

A timely must read in Foreign Affairs by David Kaye on the risks of online harms regulation 👇

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As Netanyahu has approved plans to attack #Rafah , I repost an appeal by former UN #HumanRights experts for the Security Council & State Parties to the Genocide Convention to prevent the 'real &imminent risk of physical destruction of..a substantial part of the Palestinian people'

the ICJ's decision today is damning. the US should embrace it. foreignaffairs.com/israel/icj-rul…

I agree with David Kaye's analysis that the ICJ's ruling provides the White House with an opportunity to deploy new diplomatic tools to end the suffering in Gaza & Israel. The ruling brilliantly threads a needle to bolster efforts to protect lives foreignaffairs.com/israel/icj-rul…

Excellent piece by David Kaye explaining the ICJ’s preliminary ruling and suggesting it challenges states to do more to take international law seriously. “How the United States and Europe respond to the court’s ruling is more important than the decision itself.”